William M. Kethley Papers

RG 16A1 Box 1

Folder No. Description

1. 1924-34 State Department of Education Bulletins
2. 1928-35 Constitution Booklets Mississippi Valley Conference
3. 1932-56 Mississippi Legislature Directories
4. 1944 Delta Council Bulletins, annual reports and correspondence 1944-56
5. 1946-51 Southern Inter Collegiate Athletic Association booklets
6. 1946 S.I.A.A. (1946-51
7. 1948 Delta State Presidents William Kethley paper (1948, 1955, 1956, and 1964)
8. 1948 Committees (1948-51)
9. 1948 Committee on Guidance
10. 1949 Curricular Committee at DSTC (1949-56)
11. 1949 Committee on Athletics (1949-1953) two folders
12. 1949 Committee on Athletics cont.
13. 1949 Committee on Un-American Activities
14. 1949 Delta Council Directories (1949-56)
15. 1949 Committee, Assembly (1949-55)
16. 1951 Committee on Guidance and Counseling
17. 1951 Committee on Health
18. 1951 Credentials Committee
19. 1951 Committee on Religious Education
20. 1952 Southern Literary Festival Manuscripts
21. 1952 Committee on Athletics (Robert “Pap” Pressley)
22. 1953 Committee on Discipline
23. 1953 Committee on Scholarship
24. 1954 Student Employment Committee
25. 1954 Committees
26. 1955 Correspondence, Brochures, and pamphlets relative to musical concerts

Loose Materials:

20 copies of “The Basis and Need for Conservation Education in the Southern States” Address delivered at
Mississippi Association of School Administrators by President Kethley 1948
1 copy of DSTC Bulletin 1934-35
1953 Prize-winning manuscripts Southern Literary Festival
1955 Prize-winning manuscripts Southern Literary Festival
4 copies 1963 “The Needs of Higher Education in Mississippi”

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RG 16A1 Box 2

Folder No. Description

1. Correspondence
2. Notes and Pamphlets
3. Correspondence and Pamphlets
4. Correspondence
5. Correspondence
7. Notes on Forestry
8. Mimosa Seed from trees on DSU campus kept by W.M. Kethley
9. “Elementary Forestry for Mississippi” (revised copy)
10. “Elementary Forestry for Mississippi”
12. Paper written by Dr. Kethley, entitles “A Brief History of Delta State College”
13. Homecoming Program, 1950 President W.M. Kethley “Welcome Chillun, to Delta State”
14. Kethley Papers letter to Alumni from Dr. W.M. Kethley, Alumni News, October 1956, Speech by
Kethley, 1967
15. “A Brief History of Delta State College” by Williams Marion Kethley, President Emeritus

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RG 16A1 Box 3

Folder No. Description

1. 1937 Letters incoming to project directors of the National Youth Administration at DSTC
2. 1936 Miscellaneous Bird Census Reports January – December
3. 1936 Payroll Vouchers for Personal services (work projects) Time Sheets January – October
4. 1936-38 Reports, National Youth Administration, Sponsor’s Contributions, personnel, specimens
5. 1936 N.Y.A. Project sponsored by DSTC Department of biology Report of Specimen collected by
project, Miscellaneous Census Report January
6. 1936 Bird Studies, Leroy Percy Park, 8 miles west of Skene
7. Bird Surveys, Lakeview, MS, Kimball Lake
8. 1936 Archaeological Survey of Mississippi
9. 1936 N.Y.A. Reports, Birds, trees, plants, and insects
10. Continued N.Y.A. Reports (1936) Birds, trees, plants, and insects
11. Continued N.Y.A. Reports (1936)
12. Bird Survey Lake Washington and Lake Mann
13. Insect (Keys) and control (1936)
14. 1935-37 N.Y.A. Activities
15. 1930 Bird Rest and Feeding places N.Y.A.
16. 1935 Bird Reports
17. 1935-36 Miscellaneous Bird Bulletins
18. 1936 Legion Lake March-April
19. 1936 Classes of Vertebrae Common Birds, Fauna
20. 1936 Bird Survey, DSTC
21. 1936 N.Y.A. Bird Reports
22. 1936 N.Y.A. Bird Reports
23. 1936 N.Y.A. Bird Reports
24. 1936-38 Works Progress Administration Sponsors, Time Sheets
25. 1936 N.Y.A. Plants, trees
26. N.Y.A. Time Reports
27. 1937 Notices of termination of employment
28. 1936 Trees collected by N.Y.A.
29. Price Lists
30. 1936 Classes of Vertebrae
31. N.Y.A. Correspondence

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RG16A1 Box 4

Folder No. Description

6 Scrapbooks Dates:

1931-33
1928-31
1933-36
1927-29
1926-31
1924-41 (Articles about Woodrow Wilson kept by Jane Watt Brooke)

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RG 16A1 Box 5

Book No. Description

1. Report of a Cooperative Study of the Home Economics Education Program (1940) (4 copies)
2. Report on Functions of State Institutions of Higher Learning in Mississippi
3. A State Educational System at Work
4. The Relation of Extra-Mural Study to Residence Enrollment and Scholastic Standing
5. Curriculum Reorganization: Mississippi Bulletins 6 and 7
6. Report from the President’s Council (2 copies)
7. Teacher Education and Certification
8. Standards of the Mississippi Accrediting Commission (September, 1954, 2 copies)
9. High School Reorganization (April, 1930, 2 copies)
10. Manual of Suggestions for the Intervisitation Program (2 copies)
11. Revised Standards and Policies for Accrediting Colleges for Teacher Education of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
12. Mississippi Program for the Improvement of Instruction (October, 1934, 5 copies)
13. Mississippi Program for the Improvement of Instruction (October, 1935, 2 copies)
14. Mississippi Program for the Improvement of Instruction (October, 1936)
15. Mississippi Program for the Improvement of Instruction: A Guide for Curriculum Reorganization in the
Elementary School (October, 1937)
16. Mississippi Program for the Improvement on Instruction: A Guide for the Curriculum Reorganization in
the Secondary School, Grades 7-12 (October, 1937)
17. Notebook: Notes by William M. Kethley
18. Mississippi State Plan for Home Economics Education

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RG 16A1 Box 6

Folder No. Description

1. Delta Council; for history of Bolivar County